I doubt a microchip that doesn’t need cooling, while still calculating reasonably fast, is possible.

The whole exponential improvement hypothesis assumes that the marginal cost of each improvement stays the same. Which is a huge assumption.

A superintelligence would likely quickly become the sovereign of the earth. And it’s generally a good idea to kill the old elite after conquering a nation, then install new ones. The new ones will like you, because you made them rich, and they’ll fear you, because you killed off all of their predecessors. Of course, there’s also the risk that a super intelligence would just do away with humans in general. But anybody holding significant power right now is much more at risk.

And we can’t forget that we currently can’t even build something that’s actually intelligent, and that a super intelligence might not actually be possible.

Nobody knows for sure.

Ai models are trained on basically the entirety of the internet, and more. Humans learn to speak on much less info. So, there’s likely a huge difference in how human brains and LLMs work.

I’m not a big fan of biometrics, which is a solution proposed in the article, though I’ve only read it in part. (I stopped when opposition to biometrics and blockchain was called ideological.) The reason being that biometrics can’t be revoked, as in, once a bad guy has a copy of your fingerprint or whatever, he can forever compromise any system where you authenticate yourself with your fingerprint. Secondly, biometrics aren’t hashable. Biometric values change slightly due to environmental factors, and due to imprecise measurements. This makes it impossible to ever get the exact same measurement again. This in turn means that anybody who runs authentication needs to store whatever biometric is used to authenticate you. Therefore, if they have a data breach, your metrics are forever compromised.

There’s a lot of math happening, and they just tore out and rebuild a core system

Performance even worse now. New planet system is quite intuitive, though. I’d suggest waiting a bit for a few patches to come out.

I do want to find the most relevant topics at the top of a community, though.

Sadly, yes. I live in Germany, and here you need a BahnCard50 (or better) for the train to be cheaper than the gas for driving.